
What is recorded here
Lackalea, Ballybaun, Galway. A half-hidden stone ring and two faded banks still mark a small house inside an old fort. The resident may have born children, lost a parent or simply watched rain cross the grass. The stones stopped resisting memory and became a marker for that unknown life.
Within the centre of the interior of a rath (GA097-007----) is a circular depression (diam. 3m) enclosed by a grassed-over stone wall; it is probably the remains of a hut site. Adjacent to this structure are two earthen banks (L 8m) running E-W; these are probably internal divisions.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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